Communities across Canada, prepare to be funded -- infrastructurally!

Ministers, parliamentary secretaries and Conservative MPs fan out across the
country to show their respective -- and collective -- support for local
infrastructure projects.

The mini-marathon begins in Prince Edward Island, where Revenue Minister Gail
Shea will share the good news during events at community centres in Tracadie
Cross and St. Peter's Bay, while in neighbouring New Brunswick, Conservative MP
John Williamson is slated to do the honours in Cambridge-Narrows.

Later this morning, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt will join local MP John
Carmichael to share similarly glad tidings for Toronto during an appearance at the
Canadian National Institute for the Blind,

Moving west, Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose spreads federal largesse
throughout her hometown of Edmonton, where she will reveal fresh funding for
"community infrastructure" during three separate appearances.

On the west coast, the task of handing out money to local projects falls
to BC Conservative MPs John Weston, Mark Strahl and Nina Grewal.

Elsewhere on the ministerial circuit today:

Veterans Affairs Minister Steve Blaney heads to Saint-Romauld with good news
for Norax Canada, while in Toronto, Conservative MP Mark Adler will attend the
'grand opening' of the Bathurst Finch hub in Toronto,

On the outskirts of the GTA, Conservative MP Rick Norlock will join
representatives from the Royal Canadian Mint will officially deliver proceeds
from sales of the Highway of Heroes commemorative coin to the Afghanistan
Repatriation Memorial Fund and the Military Families Fund during a ceremony at
the Afghan memorial in Trenton's Bain Park.

Elsewhere in Ontario, Minister of State for Sport Bal Gosal delivers 2015
Pan American Games news in Ajax, and Pierre Lemieux performs his parliamentary
secretary duties on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz by announcing new
support for the 'food processing sector' during a visit to Armstrong Milling
Company in Hagersville.

In Vancouver, International Trade Minister Ed Fast talks energy trade in his
keynote speech at the Asia Pacific Foundation-hosted Pacific Energy Summit,
and touts the importance of "deeper trade" between Canada and European
Union for "businesses and workers."

Meanwhile, New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair continues his tour of Northern
Ontario by paying a visit to Timmins.

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